I've seen this question, but I want to be able to access the data that's POST'd, external from the handler.
Is there a way to do this?
Following is the code:
import BaseHTTPServer
HOST_NAME = ''
PORT_NUMBER=8088
postVars = ''
class MyHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_POST(s):
s.send_response(200)
s.end_headers()
varLen = int(s.headers['Content-Length'])
postVars = s.rfile.read(varLen)
print postVars
server_class = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer
httpd = server_class((HOST_NAME, PORT_NUMBER), MyHandler)
try:
httpd.handle_request()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
pass
print postVars
httpd.server_close()
postVars is valued during the Handler, but not after MyHandler
This because the postVars
is locally affected in the MyHandler instance created by the HTTPServer. If you want to access it, declare postVars
as a global variable at the start of do_POST
method.
def do_POST(s):
global postVars
s.send_response(200)
s.end_headers()
varLen = int(s.headers['Content-Length'])
postVars = s.rfile.read(varLen)
Anyway, I'm not sure what you want to achieve by using variables outside the server and requestHandler context.
The BaseHTTPServer
is available as an attribute on the BaseHTTPRequestHandler
. That means that you can make the postVars available on the server.
If you subclass the BaseHTTPServer
like:
class MyServer(BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
# Because HTTPServer is an old-style class, super() can't be used.
BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
self.postVars = None
You can use this server to save the postVars on the server like:
class MyHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_POST(s):
s.send_response(200)
s.end_headers()
varLen = int(s.headers['Content-Length'])
s.server.postVars = s.rfile.read(varLen)
print postVars
And then off course use MyServer
instead of BaseHTTPServer:
server_class = MyServer
httpd = server_class((HOST_NAME, PORT_NUMBER), MyHandler)
print httpd.postVars
In general that solution would be preferable to having a global variable.
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